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"A quien madruga Dios le ayuda"...this saying is one of my favorite Spanish  refranes * that my señora taught me during my semester abroad in Spain last spring. The Google Translate version of this saying is "God helps him who gets up early" but it's actually roughly equivalent to the English saying "the early bird gets the worm." Now this is a hard saying for me to relate to because I am most definitely not a morning person. I usually prefer to sleep in if I can and the idea of getting out of bed at 5:30 or 6:00am is not appealing to me in the slightest. *saying or proverb      However, last week I had to be awake before 6am every single day for work and/or the Holy Week services at my church, which started at 6:30am. Although this idea initially sounded like torture to me, I woke up each morning feeling surprisingly refreshed and ready to start the day. The Holy Week services that I attended on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday were a wonderful way ...

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Overwhelmed . If I could choose one word to describe my life and my emotions the last few weeks, it would probably be overwhelmed....but I don't necessarily mean overwhelmed in a bad way. Yes, I have been overwhelmed by work and support raising and trying to balance a million and one odd things, but I have also been overwhelmed by God's grace and the outpouring of love and support that so many people have shown me. So, in this blog post I want to take some time to reflect on a few of those overwhelming-in-a-good-way moments. Numero uno . Last Sunday at church I had a TEAM booth out in the lobby and I also had an open house after the second service. Shortly after the first service ended, a group of about 5 or 6 women from the prayer team came up to me at my booth. At first I was slightly nervous because I didn't know some of them, and they all approached me at the same time. But then I found out that they had all been praying for me and they had made me a beautiful prayer ...